Granite 2015

Our own IBM Champion, Ben Menesi, is out on the road this fall; he will be presenting two acclaimed sessions at GRANITE's Fall User Group meeting on Wednesday, December 2, 2015. Check out Ben's sessions below.
GRANITE, the Chicagoland IBM Social Software User Group, brings IBM professionals together from the greater Chicago area, southeast Wisconsin, and northwest Indiana. This year's event will be held at the IBM Technical Exploration Center, 6th Floor, 71 South Wacker Drive, Chicago, IL 60606.
View the complete agenda, and reserve your spot (it's free).

Session Descriptions

	Ben Menesi Head of Product
Mastering Your Logs, Everything You Should Know about Logging in IBM Domino Wednesday, December 2nd 2015 09:00 - 10:00 Properly logging and monitoring what happens in your Domino environment is critically important for both security and performance. In order to get the most out of your log data when things go wrong, it's vital to understand its structure, how and what is (or isn't) logged, and how to search logs effectively. In this in-depth session we will talk about the inner workings of various Domino logging mechanisms by dissecting the structure of log event documents such as Miscellaneous, Replication, Usage Session, User Activity etc. You'll learn how to deal with verbose logging, retention best practices, monitoring bottlenecks, as well as behind-the-scenes data such as status codes and how to best use them. After this presentation you will walk away with a solid understanding of your log architecture, the means to set up notifications for when things go wrong and faster ways to find what you're looking for.

Hands on with Ytria's administration tools: understanding your logs, consoles, replication, etc. Wednesday, December 2nd 2015 11:30 - 12:30 As a company that has been developing software tools to help IBM Domino Administrators and Developers for over 10 years, we talk to hundreds of customers and assist with tackling interesting, tedious and annoying problems every week. We'll dive straight into a troublesome live environment to find, understand and resolve the toughest problems administrators face on a daily basis. We will make use of the Ytria tools to get a quicker and better understanding of Log.nsf, identify and fix inconsistent replicas, discover and patch security holes, analyze application usage and more.

	Mike McGarel Collaborative Solutions Developer, Czarnowski Display Services, Inc.
Building on Properties Wednesday, December 2nd 2015 10:15 - 11:15 The custom property can be a simple yet powerful tool for both your UI and data needs. Properties can contain a variety of objects, from strings to Java beans. This presentation will demo practical examples of custom properties in two design elements, the custom control and the XPage.

	Richard Moy Managing Director, Phora Group
Creating a Secure MVC Framework Wednesday, December 2nd 2015 01:00 - 02:00 There are many popular open source MVC frameworks available for developers including Angular, Backbone, Ember, and React. These frameworks make it easy for developers to quickly create dynamic web applications. However, what do you when these solutions do not meet your needs? You create your own framework. Join Richard for this enlightening presentation on their trials and tribulations in creating their own secure MVC framework. Richard will describe their experiences, the issues and pitfalls that they encountered and what to avoid.